The New Yorker has lower ties with its artwork critic after the Condé Nast-owned journal acquired complaints about his allegedly “inappropriate” habits at its a centesimal anniversary occasion in February, in accordance with a report.
Jackson Arn was accused of constructing “inappropriate overtures” at a few of the occasion visitors and gave the impression to be drunk on the shindig, whose attendees included star editor Tina Brown and creator Zadie Smith, the New York Instances reported Tuesday, citing nameless sources with information.
Arn declined to remark to The Instances, and a rep for Condé stated the corporate couldn’t touch upon confidential personnel issues.
of inappropriate habits on the firm occasion final month. Getty Pictures for Truthful Kind
The journal didn’t instantly reply to requests by The Submit for remark.
The New Yorker modified Arn’s on-line creator web page this month to notice that he had “served as The New Yorker’s art critic.”
Arn, who joined The New Yorker in August 2023, succeeded longtime artwork critic Peter Schjeldahl, who died at 80 in 2022.
He beforehand wrote for a slew of publications, together with Artforum, The Nation and The New Statesman.
Arn’s final work for the journal was a intellectual essay entitled: “Should We View Tatlin As A Russian Constructivist Or A Ukrainian,” which was printed on March 10.
The glitzy occasion, which occurred at Jean’s, a restaurant in New York’s NoHo neighborhood, was a veritable who’s who within the journal’s storied historical past.
Writers together with Smith, Jennifer Egan and Jeffrey Eugenides rubbed shoulders with former New Yorker editrix Brown, longtime artwork editor Françoise Mouly, workers writers Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik.
Longtime New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick held courtroom, feting the journal’s centennial celebration and its growth from a mere weekly print journal to a enterprise that developed to embody podcasts, video and digital.
